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Guzzler Sales Soar; Kelly Blue Book is “Embarrassed for the American Buying Public”


Guzzler Sales Soar; Kelly Blue Book is “Embarrassed for the American Buying Public”

A story on MSNBC.com, via Forbes, reports that sales of poor-gas-mileage cars have risen in past months, mostly thanks to gas prices that are lower than they were at this time last year. Big news flash: Americans want large, power vehicles. Who would have thought?

Actually, what’s surprising is that it’s not only large trucks that are selling, but also super-ritzy, high-end luxury cars that don’t exactly sip the fuel.

Maybe the most surprising thing to us was the quote in the story from a representative of Kelley Blue Book, James Bell: “I’m kind of embarrassed for the American
buying public because once the fuel prices started to settle out a
little bit, many of us go back to our old kind of ‘flaunting it’ ways. The SUV market hasn’t
really dried up and disappeared the way we thought it might after the
first fuel-price scare.”

The way they thought it might, or the way they hoped it would? Is Kelley Blue Book a source of editorial commentary, or an impartial pricing resource?

If you are driving an SUV, always remember that you are embarassing James Bell.


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